Damn The Man, Save The Empire · Pierce The Veil

137 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 36 and 38, and 14 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 31, 32, 33 and 24 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 31-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 30 are fills, 19 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-56.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
PART AC
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACGS3B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damn The Man, Save The Empire?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Damn The Man, Save The Empire hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Damn The Man, Save The Empire?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 31, 32, 33 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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